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Andrea Valenti is Senior Director of SRE leading 38 engineers across multiple geographies. Over six years, three mergers and a couple of divestments, he developed a framework for building engineering organizations that absorb disruption rather than accumulate it. Before technology, he worked as an educator in psychiatric care in Bologna โ which taught him more about teams under pressure than any management book. He plays saxophone badly, builds electronic instruments in his spare time, and developed most of this framework between Brussels, Miami, and Mexico City before settling in Barcelona.
Why micro teams and rotation reshape culture, not just throughput, in modern SRE. Most SRE leaders design teams around the systems they own. We designed ours around movement. We introduced micro teams expecting a throughput story: smaller groups, tighter scope, faster work. Some of that arrived. What we had not budgeted for was how much [โฆ]
Jun 9, 2026 ยท 3 min